Participants: Rico Hill (Host), Mwamiko Madden, Yvonne Lewis
Series Code: FSH
Program Code: FSH000014S
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00:02 The apostle Paul states in Romans 13:10
00:06 "Love does no wrong to others, 00:08 therefore love is the fulfilling of the Lord." 00:13 And Jesus says in Mathew 5:17 00:16 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, 00:20 or the prophets. 00:21 I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." 00:25 Now we go to Webster's dictionary which says 00:28 Fulfill means, to bring to completion, 00:33 to attain or to achieve. 00:36 So Jesus or love brings the law to completion. 00:43 Wow, that's powerful. 00:45 So that means that the law is all about love. 00:52 Hello and welcome to "From Sickness to Health." 00:55 I'm your host Rico Hill 00:57 and today we have a very comprehensive program 01:02 covering the laws of health. 01:05 By comprehensive you mean covering many areas. 01:11 Well, yeah. 01:12 By laws of health you mean laws of bondage. 01:16 No, no, no, no, see these laws are laws of love. 01:20 Let me give couple of examples 01:21 like sunlight or water or exercise, 01:25 temperance, trusting in God 01:28 and as I stated earlier in the text 01:30 these laws are all fulfilled by love. 01:34 Okay then here we go, 01:37 trusting, walking, drinking, sunlight, 01:39 trusting, walking, drinking, sunlight-- 01:42 Oh, please explain to me what you're doing? 01:45 Oh, I am attempting to keep all the health laws 01:47 you're gonna discus today all at the same time. 01:50 At the same time. 01:52 For two reasons, number one, to show you and you 01:55 that they are impossible to keep 01:57 and number two, to discourage anyone from even trying. 02:02 Trusting, walking, drinking-- Please wait a second. 02:04 And what is all this supposed to do? 02:07 Oh, this here? 02:09 Well, this is to show people 02:10 that it's all about do's and don'ts. 02:12 You can't do this. You can't do that. 02:14 You can't eat this. Why don't hold this for me? 02:16 Because I want to make it clear to you 02:18 that these are laws of bondage 02:20 and I'm not in bondage. 02:22 Trusting, walking, drinking... sunlight. 02:27 All right, look you are not forced to keep the laws. 02:32 You see, the laws are to actually give you freedom 02:36 not put you in bondage. 02:38 So you think this is about bondage, right. 02:40 That's exactly what this about. Take this back. 02:42 When we have more trust in God 02:45 that keeps us from stressing out. 02:47 That's a benefit to you. 02:48 Being temperate in eating-- what you eat, 02:51 and when you eat and how much you eat. 02:53 Well, that keeps those unwanted pounds off of you. 02:56 And I don't have to remind you 02:57 or tell you about breathing air, fresh air. 03:01 Fresh air another one, 03:03 another chain of oppression, thank you. 03:07 Trusting, walking, eating, sunlight... 03:13 It's hard to breath with a cookie 03:15 in my intemperate mouth. 03:16 I can't keep these laws. 03:18 It is great neither can you? I hope you get my point. 03:22 Today we are gonna talk about the laws of health. 03:24 We're gonna talk about the joy that we receive 03:27 in just keeping them. 03:29 And the freedom they bring from disease and sickness. 03:35 Hey, I heard that. Roll it. 04:16 Well, hello and welcome to the studio, 04:19 studio of "From Sickness to Health." 04:20 I'm your host and I'm with a couple of my friends 04:24 here in the studio. 04:25 And we are happy that you have joined us. 04:27 We are gonna have a great conversation today 04:30 because I'm excited about the topic. 04:32 We are talking about the laws of health 04:36 or as I like to put it the laws of love. 04:40 So joining me here is Mwamiko Madden 04:43 who is a health evangelist out of Canada 04:46 and he is no stranger to this program. 04:48 So we welcome you. 04:49 And also we here with Dr. Yvonne Lewis 04:52 who a naturopathic doctor 04:54 but also she is a general manager 04:56 of Dare to Dream Network, 04:58 the very Network that you're seeing this program on. 05:01 Welcome to the program. 05:03 It's great to be here, thank you. 05:05 I'm so happy that you are all here. 05:06 We are gonna talk about the laws of health. 05:07 How they are the laws of love that they free us 05:11 and they should just bring joy to our souls 05:14 and health to our bodies. 05:16 But before we get into it we're gonna take a look 05:18 at what Sickness has cooked up. 05:20 I don't know what it is. So don't be shocked. 05:23 All right, let's take a look. 05:27 Thank you, Rico. 05:28 Today I'm going to do something a little bit different. 05:30 I'm going to interview 05:32 someone you may be familiar with, the blue guy. 05:35 I'm going to interview myself. Blue guy, come on out. 05:41 Glad you could make today. I like your blue suit. 05:44 Oh, I like your suit, sure. 05:46 Okay, so about these laws of health, 05:48 what are these laws of health? 05:50 Well, from what I can tell 05:52 they are bunch of rules and restrictions 05:54 that take all the fun out of life. 05:56 My thoughts exactly, they put you in bondage, right. 06:00 Oh, you read my mind. 06:02 Oh, we think alike. 06:04 You're good. Oh, we're so in sync. 06:07 Okay just one last question, 06:09 if someone were to perhaps keep these laws of health 06:15 can they get sick? 06:16 Well, that's the thing. 06:19 If people follow the laws of health, 06:21 very rarely do they get sick 06:24 but hey that's our little secret okay. 06:26 Oh, you are good. 06:28 Oh, no, you're good. 06:29 You're even better. I like your style. 06:32 I like your style. Back to you, Rico. 06:37 So you heard that? Yes. 06:39 I don't know what to say. 06:40 You know, when you think about law and love. 06:45 Sometimes people think it's an oxymoron 06:47 to say law equals love. 06:50 But really what government-- 06:52 do you know of they has no law. 06:55 Very good point. Where is the order? 06:57 where is the order in a situation 06:59 where there is no law. 07:01 And also the word tells us that the laws of God, 07:04 is Holy and perfect. 07:06 And good. And good. 07:09 So we are talking about God's character here, 07:12 as manifested in this law. 07:14 Why shouldn't there be laws of health? 07:18 That's right. That's right. 07:19 Now you said it's an oxymoron 07:22 so we are talking about something 07:23 that is mutually exclusive. 07:25 It's something that they don't go together, right. 07:28 Oh, what nearly people think that they wouldn't. 07:31 Right. 07:32 But we are finding here according to God's Word 07:35 they actually blend very perfectly together 07:38 because if God did not have laws well, 07:42 it would be similar 07:44 to what our society would be without law. 07:46 It would be total, what's the word? 07:48 Anarchy. Anarchy. 07:50 There you go. 07:51 See, I don't even have, that's the case, 07:53 I didn't even have to give you the word. 07:54 Yeah, that's right. It's right there. 07:56 Right there. That's right. 07:57 So we are talking about something that works together 08:00 and God's love is really the thing that drives the law. 08:05 It's like a child, 08:07 you wouldn't let your child go out 08:09 and play in the street. 08:10 So God says here are the boundaries, 08:13 stay inside these boundaries and you'll be safe. 08:17 But even beyond that I would add 08:19 that in 1 John 4:8 it tells us that, 08:21 God is love, right. 08:23 God is not just loving He is love. 08:25 Which means everything that God does is for who? 08:28 It's for us. 08:30 It's an outward expression of His. 08:31 It's an outward expression of love. 08:33 So God is not doing anything for Himself. 08:34 Any time He asks us to do something 08:36 its actually entirely for our benefit. 08:40 In fact, you know what, as I was studying this, 08:43 I was thinking about talking specifically 08:45 about the laws of health. 08:46 I said now Lord, 08:47 if You have laws of health 08:51 then You are not going to mention them 08:54 later on somewhere in Your book, 08:56 You probably gonna mention them in beginning. 08:59 So let's make sure that our audiences understanding 09:01 what we are talking about. 09:03 What are these laws of health? 09:04 And we have something we call the New Life. 09:07 That's how we teach it, 09:09 we teach it from ten principles 09:11 where a lot of people say its eight laws of health 09:13 and that's fine too. 09:14 But we see ten principles that God gave right there. 09:17 Where? In the garden. 09:19 Now I want to be clear. 09:21 Why do we go to the garden? 09:23 And when I say that the Book of Genesis, 09:25 the very first book of the Bible. 09:27 Why do we go there? 09:28 Well, there was a time in the life of Jesus 09:30 where people were asking Him about the divorce 09:32 and people said well, 09:33 you know, Moses, 09:35 he gave us the bill of the divorcement 09:36 and Jesus says 09:38 "Well, it wasn't that way" when? 09:41 In the beginning. In the beginning. 09:43 So when He wanted establish the principle 09:45 that He meant He took them back to the beginning. 09:47 So in the beginning we see that God establishes sunlight, 09:51 He starts in the beginning He establishes trust, 09:55 a trust relationship. 09:57 In fact, the very first words what you all think about this. 10:00 The very first words in the Bible are 10:02 "In the beginning God." God. 10:07 So everything He does after that it says 10:09 "It was good." 10:12 And that word "good" is actually towb, 10:14 T-O-W-B. 10:17 It's pronounced towb. 10:18 Which means for your benefit. 10:22 So what do you all think about this? 10:24 Yeah, when I think about-- 10:29 so often we had this misconception 10:33 of who God is. 10:35 We don't really understand the fact 10:37 that He's so relational. 10:39 He's not-- 10:41 even let us make man in our image. 10:44 It was the plurality of that noun. 10:47 It's not just one, it's God as one 10:51 but manifested in three persons. 10:54 So He is relational 10:56 and then He created man for relationship. 11:00 So He's not gonna just create us and say okay, 11:03 you're on your own. 11:04 Now do the best you can, you know. 11:06 Go play in the street. 11:07 You're right, play in the street. 11:09 You're right. Yeah. 11:10 As any parent who loves his child 11:13 is gonna set up some parameters 11:15 to make sure that they stay healthy. 11:17 What parent would not do that? That's right. 11:19 But I was talking about 11:21 establishing the laws of health. 11:22 So we talked about trusting in God, 11:24 sunshine, we are talking about water, 11:27 we talked about in one the programs 11:29 we need water. 11:30 God gives us water 11:31 and He says you have to drink water. 11:33 He talks about rest. 11:34 In fact, you know, what's amazing? 11:35 It's amazing that when He starts 11:37 this whole thing out 11:38 He says that evening and the morning 11:40 were the first day. 11:41 So evening was first and not the day. 11:44 So that connotes that, 11:46 you know, what it's time to get some rest. 11:48 When the sun goes down and we know, 11:50 we have all types of scientific evidence 11:51 that there are benefits to going in a bed 11:54 when it gets dark, right. 11:55 So there is the rest, there is, there is exercise. 11:59 He gave man exercise in the Garden, right. 12:02 What else, am I-- fresh air? 12:04 Fresh air He breathed into man, the nostrils. 12:07 Yeah, then the man came alive. 12:08 And man came alive but not only that, 12:11 now here's a question, its crazy question. 12:13 But did God build a palatial mansion 12:17 just gigantic building for Adam to live in? 12:21 No, no, no, no, no. 12:22 They are living the garden, in the open air. 12:24 But He could have built him-- 12:26 because I mean it stays 12:27 in heave He is gonna build us mansion 12:29 but in the beginning what was it? 12:30 We're just in the garden outdoors. 12:32 Outdoors. 12:33 So that connotes that fresh air was important too. 12:36 And by the way, 12:38 was Adam did just lived about 70 years? 12:39 No. 12:41 Adam supposed live forever. 12:42 So everything that was in garden 12:43 you're saying that everything that was there 12:45 was designed to help him to live forever? 12:48 And the tree of life. 12:49 And the tree of life. 12:51 Is for the feeling of the nations. 12:53 We got so much to-- this is exciting. 12:55 Okay, okay, let's do this. 12:57 Let's go and take a look at this clip. 12:59 This is gonna blow you away. 13:00 I have even shown you guys this. 13:01 And I know when you see it you're gonna go, wow. 13:03 Oh, good. 13:05 Let's take a look at it. Okay. 13:07 Now here's a tip. 13:08 If you really want a long and healthy life 13:10 it may help to live in a Blue Zone. 13:13 That is the term given by 13:14 the National Geographic fellow Dan Buettner. 13:16 There are certain parts of the world 13:18 where people are most likely to live 13:20 to a 100 years old or more. 13:22 His bestselling book is titled "The Blue Zones" 13:24 Lessons for Living Longer 13:26 From the People Who've Lived the Longest. 13:28 And he's here to tell us about it. 13:29 Dan, good morning. Thanks for being here. 13:30 Good morning. 13:32 First of all what is a Blue Zone exactly? 13:33 It's a demographically confirmed 13:35 geographically defined area 13:37 where people are living the longest. 13:38 And we found five of them. 13:39 We found one in Okinawa in Japan, 13:41 the longest living woman on the planet. 13:42 Longest of men living up on the High Lands 13:43 of the Sardinia, 13:45 Nicoya of Costa Rica, Ikaria Greece, 13:48 and then the longest of the Americans 13:50 right off the San Bernardino freeway 13:52 near Los Angles. 13:53 The Seventh-day Adventist 13:55 and they are living about ten years longer 13:57 than their North American counterparts. 13:59 What I found interesting in your research 14:00 is that this is not rely on the individual. 14:03 You're really saying the way to become a Blue Zone 14:05 is to address the system as a whole. 14:07 What you mean by that? 14:09 Yeah, so at a certain point 14:10 you see these pride centenarians 14:11 who can stand on their head 14:13 or dance with their spouse at a 106. 14:15 But you realize at 50, 14:16 they never said to themselves, 14:18 well, call doctor I'm gonna get 14:19 on that longevity diet live hundred. 14:21 They never really tried longevity happened to them. 14:24 So what my team tried do was 14:26 to look at the environmental components 14:27 that nudge them all day, 14:29 they are eating a little bit better, 14:31 moving it a little bit more 14:32 and the big point socializing more 14:35 and having the strong sense of purposes. 14:36 It turns out that that conveys more longevity 14:39 than any pill you can take. 14:41 Look at what the world is saying. 14:44 They're saying exactly what the Bible says, 14:46 aren't they? 14:47 That you have a people who are living 14:49 to 100 years or more, 14:51 it mentioned the name Centenarians 14:53 that means 100 years. 14:56 Hundred years or more and they are healthy 14:59 and they are just living life. 15:01 But it says it's not because of just a diet 15:04 and we have found when you really look into this 15:07 what other things are they experiencing this 15:11 causing them to live so long? 15:13 It can't just be nutrition, it has to be a lifestyle. 15:17 A lifestyle. It has to be the lifestyle. 15:19 Now what do you mean by lifestyle? 15:21 Let's break that down. 15:22 It's the way you eat, it's the way you rest, 15:26 it's the way you, stress reduction. 15:31 It's all of these. 15:33 I want you to continue but you said stress reduction, 15:36 because everything you are saying notice 15:37 is going back to the laws of health 15:39 that we studied in Genesis. 15:41 So you say is how you rest, 15:43 its the nutrition 15:46 He gave us a diet, 15:47 okay but you said not having stress 15:50 or stress reduction. 15:52 What is that connected to? 15:54 And that's cast all you cares upon Him 15:57 because He cares for you. 15:58 Or trust. Trust. 16:00 Trust in what? Trust. 16:02 Trust in what? Trust in who? 16:04 Trust in God. Trust in God. 16:05 Now someone is probably saying, well, you know, you know, 16:07 I kind of tried the God thing and so you're saying 16:10 if I don't trust God I'm not gonna be healthy. 16:13 Well, you know... 16:16 Well, you know what, you know, people ask me 16:18 because we say trust more and stress less. 16:21 Trust more and stress less. 16:23 And people say well, what do want me to trust? 16:25 Well, they are not ready to hear that 16:27 you know, God is the one, they have to trust in. 16:29 Well, I just say but don't trust in yourself. 16:31 If you have diabetes, if you have, 16:34 you know, heart disease and all these things 16:36 who you been trusting in? 16:38 You have been trusting in yourself 16:40 and that's what got you in the mess. 16:41 So if want to get out the mess 16:43 why don't you trust what God set up and may be-- 16:46 now even if you don't want to attach Him to it 16:48 but if you just get fresh air, you get exercise, 16:51 eat the right food, drink water, right. 16:53 You do those things get some sunshine. 16:56 All of these things show that you will be healthier. 17:00 That's right. Right. 17:01 And these are changes that don't require a lot. 17:06 You know, it's to get more sunshine, 17:09 to get a littler bit more rest-- 17:10 I'm a bit provocative. 17:11 You know. Okay, okay. 17:13 But they are expensive. Well-- 17:14 Are they expensive? Is water, is water expensive? 17:17 They're free. Is water expensive? 17:20 And I'll throw another thing, 17:21 people always tend to say their like, 17:23 well, I'm gonna die any way, you know, what I mean? 17:25 Yeah. I'm just kidding. 17:26 Everybody is gonna die but then Ecclesiasts-- 17:27 How many times have I heard that? 17:29 I know, I know where you're going with this. 17:30 But I want to set that up a little more 17:32 because people do say that when you tell them, 17:34 well, you know what you know what I-- 17:37 you're gonna die from something. 17:38 You heard that? Yeah, I heard that. 17:40 You know, am I gonna live long 17:41 or it's just gonna feel like it? 17:43 Right. Right. 17:44 Exactly. Okay but the Bible says what? 17:45 In Ecclesiastes 7:17 it says 17:47 " Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish, 17:49 why shouldest thou die before thy time?" 17:52 And the idea of losing the potential 17:54 of how long you can live 17:55 is what people should think about. 17:57 You can live long and strong instead of dying short 18:01 and just not having an enjoyable life. 18:04 Right. Right. Right. 18:05 And that's important to consider because, 18:07 you know on other programs 18:08 we have talked about how people say, 18:09 well, you know what, 18:11 my grandmother she lived the way she wanted to live, 18:14 she ate what she wanted to eat and, 18:16 you know, she even drank alcohol 18:18 and smoked and she lived, 18:19 she was 90-years-old. 18:21 But we find that she was sick 18:22 for the last 20 years of her life. 18:24 Exactly. In a wheelchair. 18:25 So it has to be there to death on the wheelchair. 18:28 But at the same time, 18:29 not these people that they talked about in Loma Linda. 18:32 They are standing on their heads. 18:34 Yes. Swimming, skiing. 18:38 You know, and then when it's time 18:39 there are almost like Moses. 18:41 They just, they just-- 18:42 when it's time they just die. 18:43 It's time, yeah, yeah. 18:45 It's not like oh, you know, I'm dying, 18:46 five years later I'm still dying. 18:49 It's not just they want. Nobody wants that. 18:51 Not just quantity but quality as well. 18:52 And that's the key 18:54 I think when we go quality of life 18:56 not just hanging in there, 18:59 you know, until you are 100 and being miserable or having, 19:02 you know, all these different issues 19:04 but being healthy, being a young one hundred. 19:07 I think that and God knew when He set forth 19:10 these principles in Genesis. 19:12 He knew this is the manual. 19:15 We came with a manual. Right. 19:17 Wow. Right with a operations manual. 19:20 This is how we are to live. The Bible is the manual. 19:23 And you know what that made me to think about? 19:24 Made me think about a car. 19:27 Because when we buy a car we get a manual 19:31 and we call that the owner's manual. 19:34 This Book is God's owner's manual 19:38 for our lives, for human body. 19:40 And if you get a car-- 19:41 let's be reasonable here, right. 19:43 You get a car and it tells you 19:47 the owner's manual says you put this type of-- 19:49 Fuel. 19:51 Fuel in it, this type of oil, 19:52 you get the oil changed this often or whatever. 19:55 If you don't do it you don't get 19:56 the manufacturers guarantee, do you? 19:58 No. That's right. You can decide. 20:00 Look, I have decided I'm not gonna use 20:03 high octane gasoline. 20:05 It's a little cheaper, they just put 20:06 a little Coca Cola in there. 20:08 Okay oh, sorry. 20:11 But you decided you want to put something else in the tank 20:14 you are not gonna get the guarantee, right. 20:17 So God has given us an owner's manual 20:19 if we follow it then we will find health. 20:22 Is that right? Yes. 20:23 The way-- one way that I look at it 20:25 to is its almost like a crown of royalty. 20:27 When you take it on you're saying I'm a son 20:30 or daughter of the King. 20:31 Because a prince and a king 20:32 they don't live like everybody else. 20:34 They have, they have reason that they carry themselves 20:37 in a way that they have better posture. 20:38 They walk in a certain way, 20:40 they eat a certain diet 20:41 and they're reflecting that fact 20:43 they are not living for themselves 20:44 they are living because they are royalty. 20:47 And I think that something that we should look at it as, 20:49 it's a benefit to us. 20:50 It's not something that should take away from us. 20:51 I'm gonna go somewhere with the idea of bondage 20:54 because Sickness says it's bondage. 20:55 But you are about to say something. 20:57 Okay, we come back to you again. 20:59 I got into what he was saying it's like-- 21:00 Okay, we'll come back to it. 21:01 Now I want to read a text of scripture 21:04 before we take a look 21:05 at what's happening on the streets. 21:07 Do people know about laws of health? 21:09 You know, in fact why don't we take a look at that 21:12 and we'll come back and I'll read this text. 21:13 As I want to pray for us before we read it, right. 21:14 Oh, great, good. Let's take a look. 21:18 Hey, Rico. 21:20 So I looked all over Hollywood 21:21 for the smartest looking person and I settled for her. 21:25 The tallest woman in Hollywood. 21:27 Now ma'am, let me ask you 21:28 what are the laws of health? 21:30 There are laws? 21:33 I should stop right there. 21:35 I mean Rico, really people don't even know 21:36 what these laws are. 21:38 Have you ever heard of the laws of health? 21:39 Yes, I have. 21:41 Would you tell me some of these laws of health? 21:43 Eating right, and staying fit. 21:45 Oh my, that's enough I don't want to hear anymore. 21:49 Why would you say that eating is a law of health? 21:51 If I break it am I gonna get in trouble? 21:54 No, I figured that say for instance 21:55 if you are eating healthy instead of-- 21:57 it's actually more for your body. 21:58 Oh, so you are one of those health nuts? 22:00 Not entirely but I do like my figure. 22:02 Oh, he likes his figure. Oh, good grief. 22:04 Get out of here, cody, 22:06 I need somebody real out here. Not leaf eaters. 22:09 Anybody not a leaf eater? How are you today? 22:11 How are you? I'm wonderful. 22:13 Now tell me what are the laws of health? 22:15 I don't know. 22:17 No, there are not that important, are they? 22:18 No, not to me. 22:19 No, not to me either. I like this lady already. 22:21 Not to me. 22:23 Rico my friend, 22:24 he doesn't know what the laws of health are. 22:25 People don't really care let's be honest. 22:28 Back to you. 22:30 Okay, first of all people have never 22:31 even heard of laws of health. 22:33 Right. 22:35 They've heard about the law of, you know, 22:37 red light and, you know, the law that's of the land 22:41 but they haven't heard that there are actual laws 22:43 that govern our bodies, our physiology. 22:47 And because of it many people 22:49 find themselves in bondage. 22:52 Right? Absolutely. 22:53 See if you knew that your lungs were only designed 22:58 to breathe in fresh air, right. 23:03 To just bring in oxygen as even when God breathe 23:07 into man's nostrils the breath of life. 23:11 By the way the best healing breathe 23:13 that you can take is through the nostrils 23:15 just like it is in the Bible, owner's manual, right. 23:19 But then someone decides I want to smoke cigarettes 23:22 and put nicotine and tar in my lungs. 23:26 They're in bondage. They're in bondage. 23:28 They're in bondage because now they can't stop. 23:31 That's right. Right. 23:32 Okay, I'm sorry go ahead. 23:34 No, no go ahead finish your thought. 23:35 I'm gonna read a text of scripture 23:37 and I want us to pray for us 23:38 because we want to have the understanding 23:40 but we also want our audience to have an understanding. 23:42 I don't believe that you get the understanding 23:43 without the Spirit of God. 23:45 Father in heaven, 23:46 thank you so much for Your word. 23:47 Please speak to our minds, 23:49 make it clear for us and for everyone 23:50 who is listening in Jesus' name. 23:52 The Bible says in Exodus 20:1 this is God speaking. 23:57 He's just brought the children of Israel 23:58 out of Egypt and He says 24:00 "And God spake all these words, 24:02 saying, I am the Lord thy God, 24:05 which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, 24:09 out of the house of bondage." 24:13 So Egypt was not only a place of captivity, 24:17 but it also you'll find out later on in Deuteronomy 24:19 it was the place of sickness 24:21 because the people there were sick. 24:24 Egyptians did not live very long lives. 24:27 They were not healthy. 24:28 Even today they can take the mummies 24:31 and through from paralegal pathologists 24:34 who study the ancients and study the pathology disease 24:36 and so forth they see 24:38 that they had hardening of the arteries, 24:40 they had cancer, they had all these things. 24:42 So God was taking His people, that was the bondage, 24:46 the sickness that was there and He brings them into health. 24:49 Wait a minute, this show is called "Sickness to Health." 24:51 Come on. Come on now. 24:54 We want to take you from bondage into health. 24:58 That's right. That's right. 25:01 So many people are in bondage to so many different things 25:05 and God came to set us free from that. 25:08 To set us free from addiction. 25:11 Whether its food addiction or narcotics, 25:15 or nicotine or whatever. 25:17 God in His mercy has given us these laws 25:22 and that will set us free from the bondage. 25:26 So the text that you read was perfect. 25:29 He was the one who led the Egyptians out of bondage 25:33 and He is the one that will lead us 25:35 out of the bondage of sin. 25:38 And these health laws 25:40 can help to set us free from that bondage. 25:43 Let's talk about that for few seconds here. 25:45 How will the health laws that are given there, 25:49 how will they help us to be free 25:51 not only from the sickness but also form sin. 25:54 Because let's be honest most people don't think 25:57 that there is any type of connection. 26:00 I think one of the biggest things 26:01 that helps us with is slave mentality. 26:04 We tend to think oh, my grandfather had this, 26:06 my father had this, so I have to have this. 26:09 I'm bound, bound to have the same disease. 26:13 But the whole idea of the fact 26:14 that God designed is He's letting us know 26:16 He's a rational God. 26:17 And things have-- that we do have a consequence. 26:20 So we can learn about the laws of health 26:22 so that we have a control over our destiny. 26:25 It's not something we are bound to have. 26:27 We can change the direction of where our genes 26:29 are even telling us to go. 26:30 We have control and therefore we are free. 26:32 Oh, that's good. That's a rich stuff. 26:34 That's good. That's good. 26:35 So what you are saying then is when someone has, 26:38 you know, say for instance 26:40 diabetes has been in the family, yeah. 26:44 It's been in the genes. Right? 26:46 So a person says well, I'm bound by that. 26:50 I have no options. 26:51 In fact, let's be honest. 26:52 I heard it in our community people say 26:54 well, my mom had it and, 26:56 you know, and grandma had it so, 26:59 you know, in your family history is important. 27:01 It is good to look at that 27:02 but if you're doing the same thing, 27:05 if you are walking in the same bondage as them 27:09 then you are gonna be bound. 27:10 Yes. 27:12 You know one of things 27:13 we say about this particular topic we say, 27:18 you know, we should stop in the name of the love. 27:20 You know, it's a common expression 27:23 and I think they're supreme to the song. 27:24 Yeah. There you are. 27:26 It was based on stop in the name of the law 27:29 which was a very common expression with-- 27:32 you know, some member of the law 27:34 who was telling someone to stop 27:36 because they have done something. 27:37 Right. Right. 27:38 But we are thinking in this program 27:40 we should stop in the name of the love. 27:41 Stop what? 27:42 Stop the dietary practices that are causing us sickness. 27:46 Stop the lifestyles as you brought out 27:49 that are causing to be in bondage. 27:52 Why because we have loved ones, we love them and they love us. 27:57 If we are sick how can we have a full relationship? 28:01 But take it as another step further. 28:03 How about our love to God? We should love our God. 28:06 We should love Him because He loves us. 28:09 You know, we could keep going. Oh, for sure. 28:11 Because I want to show there needs 28:12 to be a part two to this. 28:13 I want to thank you both for being here to talk about. 28:16 What it's over? It's over. 28:17 What? Wow! 28:19 Thank you so much for being here. 28:20 God bless you and we will see you 28:21 the next time on "From Sickness to Health." 28:23 God bless you. 28:29 In the 1 John 5:3 the Bible says 28:32 "And this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments 28:36 and his commandments or his law are not grievous." 28:41 You know, if the commandments are the law of God 28:45 then we ought to keep them, 28:47 not to try to impress God 28:49 or anybody else for that matter. 28:51 Now to be fair, 28:52 some have put the laws of God on people 28:56 and cause them to feel burdened with the law. 29:00 Now, I've been guilty a time or two 29:02 but when I began to understand Who God is 29:06 and that His law has been given to us 29:08 for the same reason 29:10 that that the law of not running a red light 29:12 has been given. 29:13 It's for our protection. 29:15 We keep them because God loves us. 29:18 So when you're under His law 29:21 you're under His protection of love. 29:25 And that's freedom. 29:27 If I'm supposed to feel free why do I feel so restricted? 29:31 I'll tell you why. 29:33 Because they are impossible to keep, 29:34 that's why people can't keep the laws. 29:37 I'm stressed out, I need to smoke. 29:40 Wait, wait. No one smokes on this program. 29:43 Did you know that they have to by law 29:46 put on that pack of cigarettes 29:49 a warning that smoking causes cancer. 29:52 There you go again, more restrictions. 29:54 Don't you realize those are chains of bondage, Rico? 29:57 Okay, all right. Let me try something. 30:00 May I have one of your cigarettes and the lighter? 30:02 Oh, now we are talking. 30:05 I have the freedom to choose 30:08 to smoke this cigarette or not, do you? 30:19 Friends, God is love and His laws are given 30:23 not to bind us or to restrict you 30:27 but to protect you and to sustain you. 30:31 Now that is freedom. 30:33 I'm Rico Hill and as always I leave you with this, 30:36 3 John 2 "Beloved, I wish above all things 30:39 that thou mayest prosper and be in health." 30:43 Be healthy. 30:44 I'm Sickness. 30:47 Maranatha. 30:48 Are you saying I'm in bondage? 30:50 Are you saying that I'm the one who is in bondage here? |
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